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Osho Dancing, Singing, Dive into Meditation
Preetam Chhabi Nainan Basi #11
Be joyous!
Share joy!
Remember, only a joyful person can share joy.
The miserable share only misery.
One can only share what one is.
What we are not
we cannot share even if we want to
This is why, in this world,
it is not that people don't want to give happiness to others
What parents want to give unhappiness to their children?
What husband wants to give unhappiness to his wife?
What wife wants to give unhappiness to her husband?
What children want to give unhappiness to their parents?
No,
it is not a question of your wanting it,
it is just that misery is the outcome.
A neem tree may wish a million times
to produce sweet mangoes,
and the thorns may wish a million times to become rose flowers,
but what can happen by wishing?
Nothing will come just from wishing.
You wish to make people happy,
but only manage to make them unhappy.
You wish to see the earth become a paradise,
but it becomes more of a hell with every passing day.
This is why I want to say to you,
that this is my message:
before
you can share bliss with another,
within you
the flute of bliss has to be playing;
the fountain of bliss has first to burst forth within you.
I want to make you selfish.
This word svarth -- selfishness -- is very lovely,
but it has become ugly.
People have given it wrong meanings
Selfishness means: the meaning of the self,
one who comes to know his inner meaning,
one who comes to experience self-realization.
Only he is selfish.
I say unto you: be selfish,
because in your becoming selfish lies the possibility of altruism.
If you can become wholly and totally selfish,♫
if the flowers of meaning can blossom within you,
if the lamp of bliss can burn,
and the ocean of delight arise in you,
then being altruistic will be your only possibility.
That's why I do not teach service,
I teach selfishness.
I do not ask you to serve others --
you cannot.
Even if you serve, only wrong things will happen.
You will go out to serve
and will come back having done harm.
You will want to create,
and only destruction will take place.
You yourself are wrong,
so whatsoever you will do, will be wrong.
Hence, I do not lay emphasis on your acts,
my emphasis is on you.
What you do is secondary;
only what you are is important.
Be joyous!
And there is only one way to be joyous --
the only way --
there has never been any other,
neither today,
nor any day in the future
there is simply no other way to be blissful except through meditation.
No one can become blissful through money.
Yes, if a meditator has money,
then bliss will shower from that money too.
No one can become blissful from palaces
But if a meditator lives in a palace,
bliss will shower.
If a meditator lives in a hut it turns into a palace.
If a meditator is in hell,
then too he is in heaven
There is simply no way to send a meditator to hell!
Wherever he is,
is paradise,
because paradise is arising from within him each moment.
The rays of paradise emanate all around from within him, each moment
The same way that flowers come to the trees,
paradise comes to the meditator.
My message is: dive into meditation!
And don't make meditation a serious affair.
Much harm has been done by taking meditation as a serious matter.
Take meditation very lightly,
take it very playfully!
Hasiba, kheliba, dhariba dhyanam --
Keep these words of Gorakhnath in mind:
Laughing, being playful -- the knack of meditation!
Meditate laughingly and playfully.
Long-faced
rigid,
serious and heavy --
don't sit down like a holy man,
the world is full of such corpses.
People are already so sad,
and then you sit down with an even sadder face.
Spare us!
People are already very sad and suffering;
this earth cannot bear sad people any longer.
Now the earth wants dancing,
singing meditators --
full of delight!
The earth wants a religiousness
to which joy is the basic note;
to which celebration is the basic note.
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